Sometimes you need to take your free days when they come, ditch the office and just get out and ride. So it was that, with a short break in running our mountain bike holidays, we headed to the hills to grab a ride on a favorite trail.
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Riding pre Pyrenees, on the Spanish side of the Pyrenees is spectacular. The Pyrenees stand majestically as a backdrop to the twisty, flowy trails. On this day of our "Backcountry Pyrenees" holiday we shuttle here, dropping 500-700m to the villages below where we have a coffee and load the vans for another descent. The next day we will take a 4x4 uplift way up into the mountains you see in the background, which aren't covered with snow when we run our holidays, and spend the rest of the day riding back down. That is just two of the days on our Backcountry Pyrenees holiday, should be fun!

This trail is one of the days on our Backcountry Pyrenees tour, which takes in some of the remote pre-Pyrenees trails using plenty of van uplift. This day uses several van uplifts as we traverse through a really remote area of Guara. After each uplift we descend on pristine, rocky singletrack alternating between flat out and trialsy and at the bottom of the valley we meet the van again to take us up to our next peak. Our final descent drops us at a remote hostal where we spend that night.
The trails in this part of Guara are all about big rocky carpets which offer multiple line choices, natural jumps and berms mixed up with complicated rocky sections and difficult switchbacks.
You can read the full story on our website: http://www.basquemtb.com/mountain-bike-trip-in-the-backcountry-pyrenees/

Zona Zero is an enduro rider's paradise and a regular stop on our Backcountry Pyrenees mountain bike holidays. BasqueMTB have good friends who are responsible for creating and managing the trails and so we often get a call to tell us that there are new trails ready to ride and so it was for the trail in this video. You can read the full story here: basquemtb.com/pyrenees-mountain-bike-holiday-new-trail/